God Quotes

What the mysterious is I do not know. I do not call it God because God has come to mean much that I do not believe in. I find myself incapable of thinking of a deity or of any unknown supreme power in anthropomorphic terms, and the fact that many people think so is continually a source of surprise to me. Any idea of a personal God seems very odd to me.

I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.

Woman was God's second mistake.

But to show you my heart fully, my friends: if there were gods, how could I bear to be not a god! Therefore, there are no gods.

Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god.

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

The 'kingdom of God' is not something one waits for; it has no yesterday or tomorrow, it does not come 'in a thousand years' it is an experience within a heart; it is everywhere, it is nowhere.

That God became man indicates only this: that man should not seek his salvation in eternity, but rather establish his heaven on earth.

When a nation is on the downward path, when it feels its belief in its own future, its hope of freedom slipping from it, when it begins to see submission as a first necessity and the virtues of submission as measures of self-preservation, then it must overhaul its God.

Almost two thousand years, and no new god!

To live alone one must be a beast or a God, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher.

In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part.

At present I am light, now I fly, now I see myself below me, now a god dances through me.

The man of the future who will redeem us not only from the hitherto reigning ideal but also from that which was bound to grow out of it, the great nausea, the will to nothingness, nihilism; this bell stroke of noon and of the great decision that liberates the will again and restores its goal to the earth and his hope to man; this Antichrist and anti-nihilist; this victor over God and nothingness - he must come one day.

God is a too palpably clumsy answer; an answer which shows a lack of delicacy towards us thinkers-fundamentally, even a crude prohibition to us: you shall not think!